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Hebrew For Beginners

Learn how to speak read & write Hebrew from scratch with one of the most popular Hebrew courses worldwide.

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In this course you are going to learn Hebrew from scratch with our special unique program that has proved itself for years. We are going to start with the basics and slowly bring you to a level in which you will have enough skills to travel around Israel, and have full basic conversations, without the use of English.

So these are our goals:

Understand the differences between English and Hebrew

Know the Hebrew Alphabet.

Read and write in Hebrew.

Go through the basics words (Creating a basic arsenal of words)

Build a basic sentence in Hebrew, including Questions.

Create a rich vocabulary in Hebrew.

Be able to fully communicate in Hebrew.

- You will have plenty of homework to practice what you have learned, at least one huge quiz for every section, TONS of extras (MP3 files, presentations, PDF files and many bonuses).

- Dedicated staff that will answer all your questions.

- The course is huge, and to master all of it including the extras you need at least 2 months. Moreover, we are adding new materials frequently and will notify you, so your experience of learning Hebrew is never-ending.

- The course is built in a very unique way that was developed and used in the last decade with amazing results in various countries

Need help but don't know how to post a question? Don't worry, this lecture will set you up :)

Basic Technical Tip - Announcements & How To Ask Questions.

01:27

This short quiz is just to help you make sure you've understood the basics right, if your grade is not 100 here, please repeat the last lectures, go through the extra materials as well for each lecture, and ask questions if you don't understand something!

Short quiz before we start!

6 questions

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The Hebrew "Alef Bet".

14 Lectures
41:22

Introduction to the first section.

- You can download the extra materials in every lesson, which is some data about every letter learned in this lesson, we respectfully ask that you do not share this extra materials and use it for your own learning experience.

- Make sure you watch the lectures with 720p resolution.

- Have fun and good luck.

* Attention: at the mini overviews we will teach you some new words, and we will pronounce as if there are vowel signs (However, we will not write these signs), because the Hebrew language is commonly written without vowel signs, we will elaborate everything in the second section.

Introduction to reading/pronouncing enhancing, time to enrich your vocabulary!

1 page

In this quiz you are going to put the vocabulary you were building so far to a test, note that the words are going to be without vowel signs, because we need you to get used to read without vowel signs, since this is the common way words are written here in Israel (even on road signs). it's not going to be easy so get prepared.

Time to put your vocabulary to the test!

40 questions

Words in this lesson:

1) יֵש - yesh - There is (example: 'In the kitchen there is a thief' - "במטבח יש גנב")

2) לֹא - lo - No (reminder for you: כֵּן - ken - Yes)

3) עַל - al - On (Bonus: מִתָחַת - mitahat - Beneath)

4) רַק - rak - Only / Just (example for 'just': 'you are just a lier' - 'אתה רק שקרן')

Females: the 's' become 'ות', for example: door-דֵלֵת --> doors-דְלָתוֹת. (in Hebrew door is at feminine form, we will elaborate soon).

When talking about the gender we mean the grammatical gander - whether feminine or Masculine, we will use the words - female and male when talking about the grammatical gender in this course.

Important: when the instructors says that when an object ends with 'ת' is a female, he means that it is most of the times, but not always, there are exceptions , only pure experience will get you to know the grammatical gender of every object in Hebrew.

Examples via pictures can be found here

Attached: more examples

Singular / Plural

07:17

In Hebrew we notice the gender of the animal, and word 'it-זֶה' changes from female to male.

זֶה - ze - it (male).

זוּ - zoo - it (female).

the same goes for objects, but you can't really know the gender of an object, right? it comes only by the experience of practicing in Hebrew, don't worry about it.

It (male or female?)

06:18

The Verbs

In Hebrew the verbs is a very topic, and not very simple to understand . The verbs can not be taught in several lessons,it takes years of practice to understand and recognise all the tenses and the conjugations. here we try to simplify it as much as possible. We give you the basic rules of verbs, but the vocabulary is endless, so with the basics and a very special website (down below) you will have the tools to practice and learn as many verbs as possible.

Verbs in the lesson:

1) כ.ת.ב - Write root.

2) א.ה.ב - Love root.

You don't need to completely know all the verbs in order to speak Hebrew, or to finish this course, but here are some tips how you can enhance your knowledge with verbs:

2) In this site you can choose your verb in english, choose tense, gender and S/P, and get all it's forms, so every time you need a specific verb, check this site and enhance your vocabulary, save it to your favourites, this is very helpful (more information in the Bonus section).

Verbs (the basics): Part I

08:53

The verb in this lesson: (root)

ר.ק.ד (contain the meaning of dance, as a verb).

with all of it's forms, as you can see, every verb have a lot of forms, depending on the gender, tense, and singular-plurality, newcomers (and sometimes even local Israelis) makes a lot of mistakes with it, so don't worry about it, know the root, and let the locals fix you when you make mistakes, this is the only way to learn, other than that, use the site we gave you in the last lesson to know specific forms of verbs if you have too, good luck.

Verbs (the basics): Part II

17:10

This is a demonstration for how to use the online Verbs-Tool, Here's the link.

Demonstration: how to use the verbs tool

01:13

You've learned a lot of words in this section, some of then are really essential for section 4! so this quiz is to ensure you know them all.

Again the words are going to be without vowel signs, for the same reasons as the last vocabulary quiz.

Vocabulary!

24 questions

In this quiz you are going to read and learn new words, it is highly recommended that you will write the words in your notebook to enrich your vocabulary. (I'm going to comment the word's meaning in english as well for you).

Note: this quiz is for you to test your progress so far, and how you can now practice your hebrew everywhere and learn new words.

Reading new words

26 questions

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Creating sentences

8 Lectures
29:09

introduction to creating sentences

00:24

The most confusing difference between Hebrew and English, is that in Hebrew the noun always comes first, even if there's adjective attached to it, unlike english. Another example you are familiar with is "Mazal Tov", and here's why:

Itzik is a Hebrew teacher with an experience of over 8 years in teaching.

Teaching thousands of students online world wide. For the past 8 years volunteered as a Hebrew tutor for newcomer families children (ages 7-12) . Have done countless Hebrew lessons for volunteered soldiers from abroad during his 3 year service in the IDF. Traveled to New Zealand and the states, and participated in Hebrew programs for children in Jewish schools and communities. With the assistance of Guy Ben Moshe , developed an easy way to learn and understand this ancient language. The system is unique and has been proven as useful by their large student community.

"We love what we do, and believe that In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn" - Itzik Pinhasov איציק פינחסוב